For quite some years there has been talk about a $80 million Solar Oasis Project to be built in Whyalla on South Australia’s Spencer Gulf. Using technology being developed by engineering professor Stephen Kaneff from the ANU, the project is suggested to consist of two hundred 22.6m wide parabolic dishes. The dishes would concentrate the sun on a boiler which produces steam and hence is suggested to produce 22.2MW electricity. The heat from this process could also be used to distil some 20 megalitres per day of water.

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